Dead Souls

Dead Souls 2018

死灵魂 sǐ línghún

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

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4.66 Intermediate Director Wang Bing 🍅 100%

Vocabulary

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人头 人頭 rén tóu person; number of people; (per) capita; (a person's) head; (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account) ∼HSK 2
七月份 七月份 qī yuè fèn July ∼HSK 2
受害者 受害者 shòu hài zhě casualty; victim; those injured and wounded ∼HSK 2
不太 不太 bù tài Not too HSK 2
大体上 大體上 dà tǐ shàng overall; in general terms ∼HSK 2
中医 中醫 Zhōng yī traditional Chinese medical science; a doctor trained in Chinese medicine HSK 2
那会儿 那會兒 nà huì r at that time (in the past or the future); also pr. [nèi huì r] HSK 2
拿出 拿出 ná chū to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence) HSK 2
没意思 沒意思 méi yì si boring; of no interest ∼HSK 2
个子 個子 gè zi height; stature; build; size HSK 2
组长 組長 zǔ zhǎng group leader HSK 2
里头 裡頭 lǐ tou inside; interior HSK 2
斤 斤 jīn catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g HSK 2
送到 送到 sòng dào Deliver HSK 2
外地 外地 wài dì parts of the country other than where one is HSK 2
西北 西北 Xī běi Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang) HSK 2
秋天 秋天 qiū tiān autumn HSK 2
找出 找出 zhǎo chū to find; to search out HSK 2
中年 中年 zhōng nián middle age HSK 2
东北 東北 Dōng běi Northeast China; Manchuria HSK 2
坏人 壞人 huài rén bad person; villain HSK 2
月份 月份 yuè fèn month HSK 2
老是 老是 lǎo shi always HSK 2
这时候 這時候 zhè shíhòu At this moment HSK 2
做饭 做飯 zuò fàn to prepare a meal; to cook HSK 2
少数 少數 shǎo shù small number; few; minority HSK 2
例子 例子 lì zi case; (for) instance; example HSK 2
公斤 公斤 gōng jīn kilogram (kg) HSK 2
一共 一共 yī gòng altogether HSK 2
饱 飽 bǎo to eat till full; satisfied HSK 2
报名 報名 bào míng to sign up; to enter one's name; to apply; to register; to enroll; to enlist HSK 2
春天 春天 chūn tiān spring (season) HSK 2
一部分 一部分 yī bù fen portion; part of; subset HSK 2
等到 等到 děng dào to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc) HSK 2
姓名 姓名 xìng míng surname and given name; full name HSK 2
商量 商量 shāng liang to consult; to talk over; to discuss HSK 2
凉 涼 Liáng the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西凉 (400-421) HSK 2
刻 刻 kè quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals HSK 2
不一定 不一定 bù yī dìng not necessarily; maybe HSK 2
大小 大小 dà xiǎo dimension; magnitude; size; measurement; large and small; at any rate; adults and children; consideration of seniority HSK 2
姓 姓 xìng family name; surname; to be surnamed HSK 2
等于 等於 děng yú to equal; to be tantamount to HSK 2
温度 溫度 wēn dù temperature HSK 2
分开 分開 fēn kāi to separate; to part HSK 2
校长 校長 xiào zhǎng (college, university) president; headmaster HSK 2
青年 青年 qīng nián youth; youthful years; young person; the young HSK 2
云 云 yún (classical) to say HSK 2
冬天 冬天 dōng tiān winter HSK 2
队长 隊長 duì zhǎng captain; team leader HSK 2
咱 偺 zá see 咱 HSK 2